the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

able to gain and maintain world leadership in innovation and technology while the latter continues to lag. Notwithstanding … the magnitude of this innovation gap and the political emphasis placed upon it on both sides of the Atlantic, very little … differences between the two continents in the quantity and quality of the major ‘inputs’ to innovation: R&D investments and human …